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"Danger lurks as the air grows colder and threats lie in the shadows at every turn. While the rest of their fellowship seeks safety, Bea and Cad team up with a small group of survivors to travel to the Citadel of Knowledge, pursuing answers to their world's darkest mysteries. But their journey reveals even more secrets--until an unexpected ally shines a light in the darkness, providing a clue to a mystery from long ago and a beacon of hope for the...
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"Nia's spent her whole life taking a back seat to her older sister, Maeve, who's expected to inherit their mother's Seer powers: the ability to see the future through dreams, passed down to one woman in each generation. But when Nia, a trans girl, starts having visions of the future, she must suppress her powers to protect her relationship with her sister. Soon Nia's dreams become impossible to ignore, and she has no choice but to distance herself...
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"Determined to get revenge on the general who reflected his every attack, Touya prepares for battle. But before he can strike, he'll have to arrange a meeting with two of the most powerful men in the world--the emperor of the Regulus Empire and the king of Belfast! There, he tells the two rulers of his plan to retake the imperial capital, but unbeknownst to him, Lucia, the Empire's third princess, has a very important request . . ."--Back cover.
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"Up against a Phrase, Touya and his party try a variety of tactics to break their foe's hard shell. But as each of their strikes is repelled without leaving so much as a scratch, it seems they've more than met their match. All looks hopeless until one of Touya's new acquaintances suddenly shows up and destroys the creature without breaking a sweat! Who is this traveler, and what sort of power does he possess . . . ?"--Back cover.
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"After the incident in Helshper, not only has Cayna gotten evidence that there are other players in Leadale, but she's also felt an echo from the past from her old friend and fellow Skill Master, Opus. Now back in Felskeilo, Lonti introduces her to a classmate from the Royal Academy who has some secrets of her own, and a particularly fearsome monster threatens to destroy the capital…Can Cayna save the day once again?"--Back cover.
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"When a shiny idol is a sad mess in real life, can his number one fan help him stay upbeat? High schooler Utage Kinoshita works part-time as a housekeeper so she can afford her fangirl obsession with Tamon Fukuhara, her favorite member of boy band F/ACE. When work serendipitously sends her to the home of her idol, she discovers that the real Tamon couldn't be more different from his wild and sexy onstage persona! Tamon is an insecure mess in real...
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"Hitori Gotoh just wants to be popular, but the thought of interacting with her classmates makes her fal to pieces. Her solution -- become a rock legend so cool that people approach her instead! However, while spending all of middle school in her closet shredding on the guitar may have earned heranonymous internet fame, it did nothing for her social skills. Now a high schooler, Hitori's feeling ready to shrivel up and die -- when she gets a sudden...
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"In the past, present and future of the Marvel-Verse, never has there been a conqueror quite like Kang! Get to know the time-traveling tyrant from the 31st century in these epic clashes with the heroes of today! When the self-proclaimed "Ultimate Kang" sets out to conquer his own alternate-reality counterparts, the Council of Kangs, the Avengers assemble to oppose him! But only one force can possibly halt his mad march: himself! Then, Kang returns...
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"Amane Fujimiya lives alone in a messy apartment--right next door to Mahiru Shiina, a veritable 'angel' who's the smartest, prettiest girl at school. When a chance encounter on a rainy day draws them together, Mahiru finds herself spending more and more time helping Amane get his life in order. And though they both insist they have no intention of dating the other, slowly but surely, something more than friendship begins to blossom"--Back cover.
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"After the Demon Lord is slain at the hands of a lone human warrior, humans rejoice over the end of his reign of terror. But an intense tournament of powerful fighters hoping to be crowned the next Demon Lord has drawn in the unlikeliest of contestantsHelck, who claims to hate humans but is one himself! How will Helck change the course of the war between demons and humankind? Once they agree that the human race is worth saving, Helck and Vermilio...
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"In her youth, Jeanne was a powerful witch who vanquished the evil Demon King and saved the world--but over time, the people she rescued have forgotten her. Now she is a lonely old woman living in a secluded forest...until she accidentally summons a cat from Earth to her home! The former city kitty is now gigantic and must acclimate to this new world. Can a cat from another world soothe the loneliness of the forgotten witch?"--|cProvided by publisher....
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"Kokoro is a junior high school student--but after years of bullying, she's become so anxious that she no longer goes to school. One day, she's pulled through her full-length mirror into a castle in another dimension by a girl in a wolf mask. The mysterious girl tells Kokoro and six other kids that they will compete in a scavenger hunt. If one of them finds a key that unlocks a secret room, that person will get one wish granted. As long as they observe...
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"Seven junior high students are granted access to a mysterious castle. The only thing connecting the kids is that none of them go to school during the day. Kokoro sees the castle as the only place where she truly belongs, but not everyone feels that way. Ureshino announces one day that he's going back to school, but as summer vacation comes to an end, Ureshino returns with mysterious injuries. As it becomes clear that everyone in the castle has their...
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Daniel, a schoolboy, is assigned to interview an elderly survivor of the old Indian residential school system. His assignment leads him to Betsy, the grandmother of one of his friends, who tells him her story of loss, abuse, abandonment, and indignity in the residential school, and how she found resilience, strength, and determination in the words that her father gave her at Sugar Falls.
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"As a child living in exile during the Cultural Revolution, Ai Weiwei often found himself with nothing to read but government-approved comic books. Although they were restricted by the confines of political propaganda, Ai Weiwei was struck by the artists' ability to express their thoughts on art and humanity through graphic storytelling. Now, decades later, Ai Weiwei and Italian comic artist Gianluca Costantini present Zodiac, Ai Weiwei's first graphic...